Tanqueray Almonds and the PIP-POP Awards
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Good morning breakfastpoppers. Today is Tuesday, September 27, 2011. It is time for the 51st weekly presentation of the coveted PIP-POP Awards. Our liquid breakfast this morning will be a Tanqueray Almond. You will need 1 ounce of Tanqueray London Dry Gin, 1/2 ounce almond liqueur, a splash of bitters, a splash of sour mix and a few maraschino cherries for garnish. Add the gin, almond liqueur and bitters to a snifter filled with ice. Top with sour mix and garnish with cherries. Put on your top hat or your feather boa and head for the theater. The "winners' are waiting to begin the show.
Welcome one and all. Let's jump right in by welcoming beloved breakfastpopper 50 caliber to the stage to present our first PIP. "Thank you for having me and it is with great pride that I ask you to give a big round of applause to a representative of the Sam Adams beer company for helping entrepreneurs on the road to success. Sir, your company rocks. You offer loans and coaching and you are a shining example of what's best about the free market. Your project is aptly called "Brewing the American Dream. I'll drink to that!."
Our second award of the morning is a PIP with Rep. Joe Walsh's name on it, the proud Republican from the state of Illinois. Sir, you are being honored today for having the courage to freely express your view of the liberal media and their utter desperation to protect President Obama, a trend that will only get worse as the 2012 election draws near. Thank you sir for also stating that the President's policies are destroying this country, a fact that simply can't be denied unless, of course, unless you are part of the MSM or the administration.
Our third award of the morning is a PIP that bears the name of Peter Schiff, the CEO of Euro Pacific Capital on it. Sir, your testimony before Congress was shocking. You stated that securities regulations have prohibited you from hiring brokers for more than three years. You were even fined $15,000 for hiring too many brokers in 2008. You incurred more than $500,000 in legal bills during this outrageous ordeal and you were prohibited from opening up additional offices. Had you been permitted to expand you would have been able to create hundreds of jobs. The administration's strangling regulations have prevented you from doing so. Thank you for shedding light in this appalling situation. Perhaps President Obama should have visited your company, instead of Solyandra, paving the way for actual job creation.
Our fourth award of the morning, a POP, goes to the mother of a kindergartner from Sweet Springs, Mo. The child's task was to bring some important family items to show and tell. The sweet child did, by bringing in his mom's crack pipe and some meth. Just think, a parent like this votes!
We have one award left this morning and it bears the name of the Justice Department on it. Needless to say it is a well earned POP. It seems the Justice Department saw fit to spend $16 per muffin for an event they hosted at a hotel in Washington D.C. Now this is a perfect example of our government hard at work wasting our money on extravagant nonsense. A representative from the Justice Department is here to bring this award to Eric Holder. I completely understand why you have a paper bag over your head. I wouldn't want to be seen in public either if I were you.
I want to thank everyone for coming this morning. Let's raise our Tanqueray Almond's on high and toast all the "winners". Until we meet again. PIP-PIP HOORAY...POP GOES THE WEASELS...
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Pop,
Great awards show with all the well deserved Pips. I love a day of mostly positivity. The $16 muffin story is priceless. I wonder if these muffins were like some brownies I had in my younger years?
I think the president deserves a Pip for telling the Black Caucus to quit bellyaching even though he didn't quite mean it as it was taken.
Good morning taxlarry,
Let's head for the bar immediately and drink to all the PIps. As for 50, I bet he hides it in his beard!
Good morning Tom,
Sorry to disappoint you but as I understand it the muffins were $2 muffins that the Justice Dept. paid $16 for! As for the Pres. I thought his speech was awful, dialect included. See you at the bar.
POP: Great Awards ceremony. 50 looked fabulous!
Three PIPs this morning? WOW! I'm impressed. Regarding the POPs, I'm equally impressed that the child brought mom's drugs to school for show and tell. That speaks volumes to me, as that is a way to say help me help her.
I know Mom will not be happy about this, and I hope this kindergardener is OK. Erik Holder? He should still resign, even if Obama doesn't want him to.
I'm of to the bar - I'm bringing fresh baked muffins! Someone please save me a seat.....
Good morning Pino,
The mom is in jail and the kindergartner is somewhere being taken care of. Eric Holder is still in charge and we are still in trouble. The Inn is still standing and waiting our arrival. See you soon.
Great awards show. I hope that mother was arrested and the poor child taken into protective custody. Reckon those $16 muffins were really moon pies? Leave it to the feds at all levels to waste taxpayer dollars of frivolous things and still expect good decent Americans with tender hearts to be a good neighbor to the rest of the world while the folks at home suffer. They all need a dose of salts and some Exlax, maybe while they are sitting on the porcelain doctor they can pull their heads from their behind.
Pop, great awards good to see the PIPs and I'm buying all Samuel Adams any one can drink at the Inn. The guns easy taxlarry, I got this 1950 badge outa Cracker Jacks works every time, 50
Dear POP.... as I read this, coincidentally the preschooler and I are baking chocolate chip muffins made with flax seed meal and whole wheat flour for a one-two punch in the clearing of the pipes department (if you catch my drift). I ran an analysis on how much my muffins cost per muffin and I still can beat the government prices PLUS with my muffins, you can get the added benefit that only fiber and flax can give.
Crying shame that people in the private sector who can and are actually trying to create jobs, move forward, and change the direction of this country are met by governmental obstacles. Typical.
Finally it is a sad state of affairs when your own kindergartner will turn you in for being a crack whore when the mom was probably just doing the best she could after her job was outsourced and eliminated.
Dear POP.... as I read this, coincidentally the preschooler and I are baking chocolate chip muffins made with flax seed meal and whole wheat flour for a one-two punch in the clearing of the pipes department (if you catch my drift). I ran an analysis on how much my muffins cost per muffin and I still can beat the government prices PLUS with my muffins, you can get the added benefit that only fiber and flax can give.
Crying shame that people in the private sector who can and are actually trying to create jobs, move forward, and change the direction of this country are met by governmental obstacles. Typical.
Finally it is a sad state of affairs when your own kindergartner will turn you in for being a crack whore when the mom was probably just doing the best she could after her job was outsourced and eliminated.
Good morning Cousin Fudd,
Thanks so much for coming to the breakfast table. The mother is in jail and the little boy is safe. As for the idiots who waste our money on $16 muffins, sorry to say they are still yucking it up at the Justice Department. Come to our "virtual" Inn tonight for rest and relaxation.
Good morning 50,
Thanks so much for presenting. You looked mighty fine up on that stage. See you at the Inn. I'll try some Samuel Adams.
Dear jellio,
The muffins sound like a fine idea and frankly I think you should send some to the Justice Department because they are in dire need of having their pipes cleaned! As for the crack mom maybe she can teach parenting skills while in jail. See you at the Inn and bring some muffins.
Morning POP...I think jellio should have a bake sale in DC and clean out all the pipes in that town...Flax seed meal and whole wheat flour..? I want that recipe...
Great awards ceremony with the PIP's finally outnumbering the POP's...All well deserved and well presented by 50...I saw the DoJ official flinch when he saw 50's six-shooter...he was wondering if the gun was from his fast and furious collection...
See you at the tavern, Pop...I'm washing down some of jellio's muffins with 50's free Sam Adams...Larry
Good morning Maven
I agree, I suggested Jellio make some muffins for the Justice Department. As for 50 packing a gun, you have to when you around some of these POP recipients! To the Inn. It's muffins and Sam Adams for me too!
Haha - and the $16 muffin entree graciously included orange juice and coffee, probably 25 cents worth of accompanying products. These convention center hotels are as bad as hospitals charging $15 for a cotton ball.
Now, the crack pipe does not bode well as a logo representing voting smarts at all. This is as bad as the woman whose spouse writes out who for her to vote, under penalty of death from himelf- true story.
We need more heroes by the day, but not like theones on Castle last night.
See you at the in and I'm bringing a sleeping bag.
The federal government buys $16 muffins, and then wonders why the taxpaying voters are so angry.
Obama's answer to this sort of scandal is to raise taxes so he can buy $20 muffins!
Ahhh! Outstanding awards ceremony, Pop! All truly deserving!
Good afternoon Patty,
At this point I think a sleeping bag is a good idea. We'll live in the Inn until such time that common sense returns to the land.
Good morning Will,
Obama's fundraisers command $35,000 a plate. What's a $16 muffin in light of that? The fed will keep throwing away our money while they tell us there isn't enough money to fund Social Security. See you at the Inn. I may move there permanently.
Good afternoon Dexter,
Thanks so much. See you at the Inn later.
It is a refreshing program to have more PIP's then POP's. I don't see why each of these people have to be fed at tax payers expense, as they certainly can afford to buy their own food.
The crack pipe situation is a sad commentary in too many American homes. I agree with Patty about the Castle show last night.
I'm so late today that I'm off to the inn now and I'll take a Sam Adams beer.
I read a shocking statistic today, bp. Didja know that 4 billion dollars was spent during the '08 election cycle? And it is estimated that 5 1/2 billion will be spent for 2012? Our putative leaders must have been elected by our enemies. How else to explain their shameful and dangerous irresponsibility!
Yet another great ceremony!
According to one of the DOJ convention attendees, we didn't miss much on the $16 muffins. Like that's going to give us any consolation. It only makes it worse - $16 muffins and nothing to rave about? Par for the course on how our tax dollars are being spent. And some people want our taxes raised?!?
Just another great example of our tax crazy goverment taking one problem and making another. Love the awards, all well deserved I may add. I have to agree with Will although the high end price would be much more. See you at the inn.
Do you Know the Muffin Man, the Muffin Man...He lives in Washington, D.C. and plans to TAX the HELL out of You and ME...I couldn't resist the aid of that Children's Poem. Lover Man and I will join you shortly at the Inn, Breakfastpops!
Good morning Pamela,
You have no idea how good I feel when the PIPS outnumber the POPS. I hope that after 2012 the PIPS keep coming.
Good morning drbj,
I wasn't aware of the exact amounts but I am disgusted with this shameless waste of money. This president who demonizes the rich isn't at all bothered to have dinner with them at $35,000 a plate. They must want a hell of a lot of favors from him.
Good morning caltex,
The muffins symbolize the extraordinary amount of waste in our government, the same government that wants us to sacrifice so that they can squander our money.
Good morning th lyric writer,
It's easy for Obama and company to demonize the rich while they happily have dinner with them and take $35,000 a plate to keep their campaign going. Obama spends money like a drunken sailor and tells us we have to sacrifice.
Good morning b.Malin,
The Muffin Man is the perfect symbol of government waste and extravagance. The Obama's who spend money and collect money like drunken sailors have a lot of nerve talking to us about shared sacrifice.
Just pass me a muffin! I want me one of them $16 muffins!
Well Pop - my husband loves Sam Adams and I didn't know this about their company. Going to make it a point this weekend to buy some for my Hubby while he watches his beloved Lions.
I always learn something when I come here!!!!
Good morning carol,
Forget the muffin, it's a $2 baked good in a $16 disguise. The beer, on the other hand, i the real deal.
Cool! 50 presenting a Beer award sounds ju-ust right!
Whoa...3 PIPs right out of the gate? That has to be a record or close to it.
LOL! Okay, maybe it's not funny, but I think the kindergartner with his Mom's crack pipe and a batch of meth at Show and Tell deserves a PIP!
Pop, THIS is where I get MY news. The only one of these 5 I knew about before dropping by was the $16 muffin dustup.
Which maybe isn't even that far out of line. You been to Starbucks lately?
Voted Up and Across.
Good morning Ghost,
I agree about the kindergartner. I did almost give him a PIP. As for Starbucks, I never go near the place. I hate their coffee!
taxlarry 8 months ago
The PIPs were great and the POPs were well deserved. The POPs show howcorrupt and deceitful the government is under the "leadership" of the Chicago mob as they try to ruin this country on a daily basis. And 50, how did you get into the auditorium with that gun? Let's discuss at the bar. BARTENDER..............